How To Install html2stx on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install stx2any

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install stx2any

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is html2stx and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install html2stx on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install html2stx on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install html2stx using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stx2any

Install html2stx on CentOS 8 using yum

Because html2stx is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install html2stx package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install stx2any

How to upgrade (update) a single package html2stx using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like html2stx in this example you should use the following command:

yum update stx2any

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade stx2any

How to Upgrade html2stx on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update stx2any

How To remove html2stx from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the html2stx package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove stx2any

Extra info and code examples

stx2any is a converter from structured text (Stx), which is plain text written in a standardised way, into other formats. Formats available currently include (X)HTML, man, raw text, DocBook XML, PostScript and LaTeX. Stx is a markup language in the tradition of plain text like markups, like wiki markup and ReST. For a comparison between different plain text markup languages, see stx2any's home page (http://sange.fi/~atehwa/cgi-bin/piki.cgi/stx2any). This package also has the following utilities: * strip_stx -- a literate programming tool * gather_stx_titles -- a script to automate cross-linking between documents * extract_usage_from_stx -- a script to produce "usage" messages from man pages written in stx * html2stx -- a utility to convert HTML into Stx.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install html2stx using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the html2stx from CentOS 8.

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